James Mark Baldwin Quotes & Sayings

“Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.”

“Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.”

“The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.”

“The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.”

“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”

“In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.”

“Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.”

“In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.”

“In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.”

“Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.”